SEs and Directories

[Irony]

So long neglected... no good.

Well, Search Engines

http://www.yandex.ru
http://www.rambler.ru
http://www.aport.ru
http://www.mail.ru/ (it's relatively new and powered by Google, but they are researching to add the Russian morphology analysis feature to Google results - that must be great when they gain experience and popularuty).
http://www.google.ru (the best one to search for Russian resources, IMHO, though the majority of my compatriots wouldn't agree with me :D)

Directories:

http://yaca.yandex.ru/ - this one has free and paid options, but you're better of if you pay :D

http://list.mail.ru/ - also free and paid options

Free directories:

http://top100.rambler.ru/
http://catalog.aport.ru/
http://www.ulitka.ru/
http://www.kinder.ru/
http://www.zabor.com/
http://www.diamondteam.ru/
http://www.refer.ru
http://www.mavicanet.ru/directory/rus/
http://all.eti.ru/
http://wwwalt.susanin.net/
http://www.bigli.ru/
http://www.ivlim.ru/
http://search.centre.ru/cgi-bin/search/index.htm - a directory with a search facility
http://www.optime.ru/
http://www.vsego.ru/
http://dir.userline.ru/
http://www.econsultant.ru/
http://kuzbass.com/
http://www.linkfinest.ru/
http://links.vov.ru/
http://studiodelphin.com/

There are a lot more, of course, and a lot of niche-specific things, as well. I'm going to update this thread from time to time.

It's great you list all the country-specific resources Doug!

What else would you like to have here? Forums, perhaps?

[qwerty]

Thanks Irony.

Apart from Mavica, do any of those directories offer English versions? And even if they don't, do they list sites that are not in Russian?

I've got a couple of listings on Bulgarian directories, and even though I can't read them, I get some traffic from them.

[Irony]

Rambler and Aport clearly state that they won't accept the resources that have no Russian versions. Mail.ru contains a lot of various resources from all over the globe, many of them are in English, but you will have to browse to a most relevant category before you can add your URL. I'll find out about Yandex, but from what I see, they only list resources that have, at least, Russian versions.

Others are less popular, and as far as I can see, none of them offer English versions of a resource index or a submission interface.

Sorry :)

[qwerty]

Yeah, that can be a problem if you're not multilingual, or if you don't know someone who can submit your sites for you... hint hint -- You might want to consider offering a service to non-Russian-speaking SEOs who want to get their sites listed on those Russian directories that allow sites with non-Russian content as long as they have Russian descriptions.

Those Bulgarian listings I've got were submitted by someone in Sofia who was grateful that I listed her site in my directory. If I didn't know the name of my site, I wouldn't even be able to make it out, since I only know a few Cyrillic letters.

[Irony]

http://2net.info/ - looks like this is what you wanted Bob.

Direct link to the English version: http://2net.info/eng/

[qwerty]

Looks like they've used ODP as backfill, so there's plenty in there.

I'll try submitting and see how it goes.